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     that store for the session of four pictures. 
     
     From there we went on to Firestone’s 
     
     Home and Auto store to wonder at the 
     
     shelves and shelves of Christmas toys 
     
     and Halloween masks and costumes. 
     
    

    
     We were then paraded to Moore and 
     
     MacLeod’s, the Metropolitan and 
     
     Holman’s. In the stores, our Mother and 
     
     Aunt Helen gathered us around them, 
     
     like a flock of chickens, as they tried on 
     
     hat-after-hat, and pocketbook-after- 
     
     pocketbook. They had no intention, or 
     
     money, to buy any one of them. We 
     
     always looked forward to the trip to the 
     
     big city, and we came home tired, but 
     
     still excited, by what we had seen that 
     
     day. 
     
    

    
     Halloween was not the “trick or treat” 
     
     celebration that it is today. The “treat” 
     
     aspect had not yet come into vogue. The